April, 2022

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12 virtual employee appreciation ideas for recognizing remote workers

Achievers

At this point, there’s no denying that remote work is part of our new normal. For many employees, that is a relief. They can spend more time with their families and less time commuting. They can set aside time for deep work without the inevitable interruptions that come with an in-office day. And they can make themselves truly comfortable wherever they decide to get the job done.

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 Employee benefits are inequitable — and it’s getting worse

Joe Markland

Read my recent article as published in Employee Benefit News. See the link below.

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Top 4 ways to connect employees in a hybrid workforce culture

Achievers

You’ve listened to your workforce and they’ve told you they prefer a blended approach to work moving forward. Your IT colleagues are putting the bells and whistles on the virtual-first environment. As you make the shift to your hybrid office culture, how will you ensure a collaborative employee experience when only a portion of the team is in one another’s company at any given time?

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The Two Sides of Retirement: Financial and Non-Financial

Money Talk

Earlier this year, I viewed two very different webinars about retirement. They were actually scheduled at the same time so I recorded one while I watched the other so I could view both. One webinar sponsored by The American College of Financial Services covered financial topics such as income taxes, required minimum distributions (RMDs), qualified charitable distributions (QCDs), and income-related monthly adjusted amount (IRMAA) Medicare premium surcharges.

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Navigating Payroll Compliance: Future-Proofing Payroll in an Evolving Regulatory Landscape

Speaker: Jennifer Hill

Payroll compliance is a cornerstone of business success, yet for small and midsize businesses, it’s becoming increasingly challenging to navigate the ever-evolving landscape of federal, state, and local regulations. Mistakes can lead to costly penalties and operational disruptions, making it essential to adopt advanced solutions that ensure accuracy and efficiency.

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HR Service Delivery Helps Improve the Employee Experience

HR Bartender

Estimated reading time: 5 minutes. (Editor’s Note: Today’s article is brought to you by our friends at Neocase , a provider of cloud solutions for HR transformation. For 20 years, Neocase has been offering solutions to improve the employee experience. They recently announced a new Employee Journey solution that provides a customizable complete onboarding to offboarding experience.

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5 Benefits to Include In Your Employee Retention Strategy

Best Money Moves

5 benefits to include in your employee retention strategy. The Great Resignation isn’t over yet. Up your employee retention strategy and keep your team where they belong with these five benefits. . Nearly 4.4 million Americans quit their jobs in February of 2022, according to the U.S. Department of Labor. These numbers suggest that the period of record employee turnover known as the “Great Resignation” is not slowing down. .

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Mental Health Stigma: 10 Tips to Fight Discrimination

BetterUp

Jump to section. What is stigma? The cost of mental health stigma. Why is mental health stigmatized? 6 types of stigma. How mental health stigmas impact individuals. Ways to cope with mental health stigma. What can I do about stigma?

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What is employer branding? How to build a great employer brand

Achievers

Your organization’s employer brand should always be top of mind. It makes a major difference when it comes to attracting and retaining top talent. Let’s take a closer look at what employer branding is and what your company can do to organically build an employer brand that sets it up for success. What is employer branding? Employer branding is how you promote your organization to job seekers and current employees.

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Twelve Tax Planning Topics for 2022

Money Talk

The 2021 income tax season will soon be in the history books. With income tax calculations still fresh in our heads, this is a great time to do some tax planning for 2022. Here are 12 tax topics to consider: Itemized Deductions- Only about 10% of taxpayers can itemize since the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act went into effect in 2018. Absent catastrophic medical bills or a natural disaster declared by the U.S.

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Where You Can and Absolutely Cannot Cut Costs Corners in Benefits Administration

Managing benefits administration is costly, and cutting corners in the wrong places can lead to disengaged workforces and the risk of non-compliance. This eBook from Selerix highlights areas where you can save without compromising the value of benefits. Proactively Thinking: Make decisions for the long run. Discover ways to be proactive in your decision-making to save money in the future, not just temporarily.

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Social Media Background Checks: What Employers Should Know

HR Bartender

Estimated reading time: 7 minutes. (Editor’s Note: Today’s article is brought to you by our friends at Accurate Background , a leading provider of compliant background checks, drug and health screenings, and Form I-9 verifications. They’ve been named to Inc. Magazine’s list of the fastest-growing private companies for the seventh time. Congrats to them.

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How to Answer “What Is Your Expected Salary?”

HR Digest

There are many tricky questions that you may be asked in a job interview. One of these questions is “What is your expected salary?” You can answer in many ways, but only some of the answers are the most suitable in this situation. . It’s only normal to want to be fairly compensated for your work. And yet, talking compensation openly with someone you intend to have a long working relationship with, much alone with a hiring manager who has far more inside information than you, may be unnervi

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How you can boost employee experience in a flexible working world  

LACE Partners

Our latest blog looks at how organisations can design their flexible working policies to create positive experiences for employees. If you’d like to talk to us about how you differentiate your people experiences , we can help, so get in touch using the contact form below. . Your employees won’t be happy all the time and you shouldn’t expect them to be.

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96% of Workers Are Stressed: How Employers Can Help

International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans

April is Stress Awareness Month. As the pandemic continues and employers report high levels of stress in the workforce, the International Foundation’s Mental Health and Substance Use Disorder Benefits survey. Read more > The post 96% of Workers Are Stressed: How Employers Can Help appeared first on Word on Benefits.

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HR’s Blueprint for a Successful 2025

The HR industry is changing. Did you know… 1. There will be 4M more jobs than workers by 2033 ( BLS ). 2. For 84% of workers, flexibility is a top priority ( FlexJobs ). 3. 75% of employees have used AI at work ( CFO.com ). It’s time to meet the moment! Use Paycor’s guide to design a blueprint for success.

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Is Gamification an Effective Employee Motivator? | BerniePortal

BerniePortal

Gamification has become one of the more popular methods of enhancing the employee experience within the modern workplace. It has been marketed as a system to increase employee engagement and productivity while also boosting employee satisfaction. But what exactly is gamification? And what impact can it have on your organization? Continue reading to learn all of the details.

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Seven Tips for Choosing a Financial Advisor

Money Talk

Many people think about hiring a financial advisor when their personal finances start to get complex (e.g., accumulated wealth over time) or a major life event such as retirement, the birth of a child, or the death of a spouse occurs. Three questions people often ask are “how can I find a financial advisor?,” “What factors should I consider when selecting one?

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Make the Workplace Worth the Commute

HR Bartender

Estimated reading time: 3 minutes. I discovered an informative website recently called the Microsoft Work Trend Index. It’s focused on providing insights about hybrid work as well as work in general. I know that some organizations are focused on inviting employees back to onsite work and trying to reduce the amount of remote and hybrid work available to employees.

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Why Emotional Intelligence Is the Key to Successful Leadership

HR Digest

Leaders have a significant role in the economic world. While great leaders can benefit an organization in a number of different ways, unsuccessful leaders can be damaging. Emotional intelligence has been proposed as a factor in determining whether or not a leader is effective. Here we look at the relationship between emotional intelligence and leadership effectiveness.

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7 HR Priorities for 2025 to Supercharge Your Employee Experience

Speaker: Carolyn Clark and Miriam Connaughton

Forget predictions, let’s focus on priorities for the year and explore how to supercharge your employee experience. Join Miriam Connaughton and Carolyn Clark as they discuss key HR trends for 2025—and how to turn them into actionable strategies for your organization. In this dynamic webinar, our esteemed speakers will share expert insights and practical tips to help your employee experience adapt and thrive.

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Should Compensation Be Tied to Performance Reviews?

15Five

Performance reviews can be scary. Sitting down with your manager to go over your performance for the last year and getting feedback is nerve-wracking but essential for employees who want to grow in their careers. For 35% of individual contributors , the annual performance review is the only time they get clear feedback from their managers. Since feedback is hard to come by, separating compensation and focusing on performance during the review process is necessary.

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Ninth Circuit Revives Fee Challenge to Salesforce.com 401(k) Plan

Proskauer's Employee Benefits & Executive Compensa

On Friday, the Ninth Circuit became the first circuit court to rule in a 401(k) plan fee and investment litigation following the Supreme Court’s January 2022 decision in Hughes v. Northwestern University , 142 S. Ct. 737 (2022). In Davis v. Salesforce.com, Inc., No. 21-15867 (9th Cir. Apr. 8, 2022), the Ninth Circuit, without discussing Hughes , upheld the viability of the types of claims that Hughes reinstated and remanded for further review.

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Employee bonus programs: What’s right for your company?

Insperity

A thoughtful, high-value employee bonus program can help make the difference between struggling to recruit and retain talented employees , and having a workplace that employees never want to leave. That’s especially true in job markets that are tilted heavily in favor of job candidates. But before you dive in and implement an employee bonus program, it’s important to consider your options, evaluate what’s best for your company and find what’s most valuable for your people.

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Miscellaneous Nuggets From Conferences Past

Money Talk

I was recently cleaning out some of my files and threw out some old conference programs from the early 2010s. Before I did, I reviewed notes that I had taken looking for some “timeless nuggets” that are still relevant in 2022. Below are ten conference insights that stood out to me as still being relevant a decade later: Future Mindedness - Things appear “closer” than they otherwise are if clarity is forced upon people.

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We’re Here to Help! How to Navigate Your Top HR Priorities

Are you helping your people proactively plan for retirement? How are you prioritizing the mental health of your HR team? These are a few of the questions that HR professionals are seeking answers to today. Luckily, Gallagher’s consultants came together with four robust articles (and one infographic) that help address these pain points and provide you with proactive planning tips to help you simplify, personalize and create flexibility in your benefits offerings to help ensure your people thrive

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10 Tips to Become a Great Leader

BetterUp

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Study: Diverse Teams Need Psychological Safety To Improve Business Outcomes

Wellable

Aside from the obvious social and moral reasons for increasing diversity in the workplace, companies attempting to diversify their teams are doing so in the hopes that it will increase efficiency and profitability. These efforts receive support from several studies showing that diversity is correlated with improvements in problem solving and innovation.

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Demystifying Compensation with Data-Driven Total Rewards Statements

15Five

Attracting great talent has never been more competitive, with companies understandably wanting to provide the most enticing compensation packages possible. Unfortunately, many potential candidates and existing employees don’t comprehend the total value of their compensation package outside of salary alone. The challenge for HR teams is to find a better way to show employees and future employees a more complete picture of their compensation.

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Ninth Circuit Revives Second Excessive Fee 401(k) Plan Litigation

Proskauer's Employee Benefits & Executive Compensa

On Friday, for the second week in a row, the Ninth Circuit reversed dismissal of a 401(k) plan excessive fee litigation challenging the offering of retail share classes of mutual funds instead of cheaper institutional share classes. As with its decision reviving the other 401(k) plan litigation (discussed in detail here ), the Ninth Circuit declined to consider at the pleading stage defendants’ explanation that it offered the more expensive retail share classes because they paid revenue sharing

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4-Week Roadmap for New Hires

Nearly one-quarter of employees (23%) admit they’ve cried within the first week! Give new hires a positive start with this four-week onboarding roadmap. This schedule outlines all the turns, detours, and speedbumps new hires can expect in their first month. We’ve included suggestions for each week to help you make your new employees’ highway to success an easy road.